Jun
25
2008
California wildfires
Northern and central California are beset by more than 800 wild fires. Last week, the state baked under four days of triple-digit heat, which dried out brushland in many areas. On Friday, severe lightning strikes set them to blaze. California brushland, called chaparral, naturally becomes very dry in the summer and burns easily. The burning is nature’s way of recycling dead plant material. It’s only when humans build houses and things that we don’t want burned that it becomes a problem.
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Hope the fires end soon!!
i live in sebastopol,ca
this is freaking scary
this was sooooooooooooo @!#$^&I()__*[email protected]* scary
stayed at my boat fire less than a mile away
gtg
You guys were lucky my house burned down inthe telegraph fire
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